A 22-year-old Kenyan engineer has developed robotic hands designed to help deaf children follow classroom lessons by converting teachers' spoken words into sign language in real time. Norah Kimathi, ...

A Kenyan entrepreneur who designed an app that translates speech into sign language using AI-powered 3D avatars has won a major award for African innovation. “Think of it as Google Translate for sign ...

The National Assembly has passed the Kenyan Sign Language Bill, 2023, marking a significant milestone in the protection of the rights of persons who are deaf, hard of hearing and deafblind. The ...

Kenyan computer scientist Norah Kimathi has built a robotic system that translates a teacher’s spoken words into sign language in real time — and, alongside it, a database of African sign languages to ...

Kenyan innovators have launched AI-driven platforms that translate speech to sign language and aid blind users, while ...

The United Nations Information Service (UNIS) Nairobi — in collaboration with the UN Resident Coordinator’s Office, the UN Development Programme (UNDP) Kenya, and the Kenya Society for the Blind (KSB) ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Elly Savatia won this year's Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation for his app Terp 360. - Royal Academy of Engineering A Kenyan ...